EBMT vs. JFIN, GNTY, BTBT, GCBC, FBIZ, VBNK, MFH, FFWM, MSBI, and HIVE
Should you be buying Eagle Bancorp Montana stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Eagle Bancorp Montana include Jiayin Group (JFIN), Guaranty Bancshares (GNTY), Bit Digital (BTBT), Greene County Bancorp (GCBC), First Business Financial Services (FBIZ), VersaBank (VBNK), Mercurity Fintech (MFH), First Foundation (FFWM), Midland States Bancorp (MSBI), and HIVE Digital Technologies (HIVE). These companies are all part of the "banking" industry.
Eagle Bancorp Montana vs.
Eagle Bancorp Montana (NASDAQ:EBMT) and Jiayin Group (NASDAQ:JFIN) are both small-cap finance companies, but which is the superior investment? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their community ranking, analyst recommendations, profitability, risk, institutional ownership, dividends, media sentiment, valuation and earnings.
Jiayin Group has higher revenue and earnings than Eagle Bancorp Montana. Jiayin Group is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Eagle Bancorp Montana, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Eagle Bancorp Montana has a beta of 0.53, meaning that its share price is 47% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Jiayin Group has a beta of 0.89, meaning that its share price is 11% less volatile than the S&P 500.
35.7% of Eagle Bancorp Montana shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 44.1% of Jiayin Group shares are owned by institutional investors. 6.7% of Eagle Bancorp Montana shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 51.2% of Jiayin Group shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, endowments and hedge funds believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
Eagle Bancorp Montana presently has a consensus target price of $13.50, indicating a potential downside of 25.08%. Given Eagle Bancorp Montana's stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, analysts clearly believe Eagle Bancorp Montana is more favorable than Jiayin Group.
In the previous week, Eagle Bancorp Montana and Eagle Bancorp Montana both had 2 articles in the media. Eagle Bancorp Montana's average media sentiment score of 0.73 beat Jiayin Group's score of 0.10 indicating that Eagle Bancorp Montana is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Eagle Bancorp Montana pays an annual dividend of $0.57 per share and has a dividend yield of 3.2%. Jiayin Group pays an annual dividend of $0.49 per share and has a dividend yield of 4.9%. Eagle Bancorp Montana pays out 46.0% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Jiayin Group pays out 16.3% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Both companies have healthy payout ratios and should be able to cover their dividend payments with earnings for the next several years. Eagle Bancorp Montana has raised its dividend for 14 consecutive years. Jiayin Group is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and lower payout ratio.
Jiayin Group has a net margin of 19.17% compared to Eagle Bancorp Montana's net margin of 8.02%. Jiayin Group's return on equity of 43.90% beat Eagle Bancorp Montana's return on equity.
Eagle Bancorp Montana received 127 more outperform votes than Jiayin Group when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 52.86% of users gave Jiayin Group an outperform vote while only 43.50% of users gave Eagle Bancorp Montana an outperform vote.
Summary
Jiayin Group beats Eagle Bancorp Montana on 12 of the 19 factors compared between the two stocks.
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This page (NASDAQ:EBMT) was last updated on 2/22/2025 by MarketBeat.com Staff